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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. As New in As New dust jacket. 1995. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter-bound tan cloth on white boards, gilt panels and lettering on spine, endpapers red. Color illustrated dust jacket, red lettering on front cover and spine, B&W photograph of author on rear. . In pristine condition, pages tight, clean, square, and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped. AS NEW/AS NEW. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 358 pp .
Synopsis
"The wisest and most captivating novel tan has written." - The Boston Globe Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23545
- Title
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Literature;, Fiction;, Chinese Women, Women, Romance
Terms of Sale
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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